 James Meadows Rendel (geneticist)

James Meadows Rendel (16 May 1915 - 4 February 2001) was an Australian agricultural scientist who specialised in animal genetics and was Chief of the CSIRO Division of Animal Genetics from 1959 to 1976.He was born the son of Col. Richard Meadows Rendel in Farnham, England and educated at Rugby School 
and University College London, where he completed his PhD as a student of the geneticist J.